Citroën C4 2008 Hatchback

[Braiz]

Hi cg cars..

This is my very first post, as well as my first car. A citroen C4 2008 model.
It doesn't hold the same flare & glamour as many of the other current project on this forum, i know

But I like the design and curves of this model as well as citroen in general since they came out with this car.
Also my father was a mechanic who specialized in this french brand, back when I was still a kid.

I am already fairly far in the process, so I'm showing some different shots and wires.

I have reached a wall with the headlights though, which is a bit frustrating. And I hope you can give some feedback on that, and of course my mesh in general.

I startet this project more than a year ago when I was still a newbie in terms of modeling. So a lot of mesh cleaning has been necessary along the way, which you probably will see

[P2sta]

Hi man,

welcome to the forum. You have made some good work there, but the car is pretty bumpy in lots of areas, that's not good, maybe try to clean your mesh, to make it better flowing, it will reduce that bumps

[DaveCox]

Welcome man!

Enjoy your stay...there is a lot of information around these forums.

I agree with P2sta.

[OldDog]

Welcome Braiz
I must say about that Headlights... do you have any images of it? because i don't remember seeing that kind of headlights on C4's

Btw My dad is a car mechanic, we have a workshop for Peugeot and Citroen vehicles.

Overall it looks great ! and yes as P2sta seed you have some bumps.. if you want we can point them out to you
Happy Modeling
Cheers !

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P2sta,DaveCox- you guy's must be the welcoming party around here

[P2sta]

P2sta,DaveCox- you guy's must be the welcoming party around here

hehe, it looks so

[Braiz]

And a nice welcome party indeed!
Thanks guys!
And you are right about the mesh bumps. I will start operation mesh cleaning hopefully tonight.

About them headlights, you are partially right but the ones on my model were modeled after some of the newer versions.
I'll post some refs when I get home from work.

Old dog, very nice your dad being a mechanic too. In some way it's in your blood right

And I have to correct this post... My model is not the 2008, but the 2006 model, very important, since the 2008 has a different frront
Sorry about that

[OldDog]

Well I knew that something is wrong whit this picture, Looking at that 2008 Headlights and well I see that they aren't the same, actually now looking at 2006, still not the same xD can you show me your ref pictures for that headlight?
Haven't really took a good look at the whole model , just scanned it for bumps

Well I don't know about it being in my blood I finished the Mechanical school , I know how car's work , know to fix few things , but i don't know Computers are my thing I'm sitting in front of this "Devils Box" since i was like 5 years old , just love working on PC.

Keep it up mate w8ing for updates
Cheers!

[Braiz]

Word dude, fo sure! Finished Mech school myself. I wasn't destined to become a mech, nor a 3d dude. But just love doing this.

Gotta love the Devils box

Here are some ref of the 2006 model, with the headlights...
And a close up.

[Braiz]

Here is a test render with simple hdr env & backplate.

Just to test reflections and mesh bumps... It clearly shows the mesh still need some work.

[Braiz]

Oh btw. The hdr was a sample downloaded at www.hdri-locations.com... Great site by the way

[P2sta]

looks good man, little problem with perspective imo, but nice to see you have some render skills too Try to fix the bumps first, it will looks better

[OldDog]

Good Render man
You Know I was out tonight and I bumped on the C4 2006 so i took a shot of the headlights .. I'll go tomorrow, wit my cam outside to take some shots of the car that i'm working on ,Yugo, and if i find C4 again I'll make you some 3000+ x **** high resolution ref pictures
EDIT: Dad will take some pictures of that headlight , that's taken out of the car. So tonight I'll give you more info

Basicly I see what more needs to be done on the headlights to make them even more realistic So I'll Now try to show that to you

The Black Thingy, Used for decreasing the light reflection ...

Red: well by eye i can see that it should go something like that ... and on your model it seems like the middle light is to short I don't know ... may be you could show the side view...

Green ... : There are two separated parts there ... separated by around 4-5mm

I'll tell you more about it later

P.S.: Yes I'm a perfectionist :banghead: Everything needs to be perfect :deal:

[Braiz]

That is truly awsome!

Thank you very much!! - Kind of you to share these ref fotos with me. And thank you again for taking your time to
get me ref of the headlights!

I've been searching the ned everywhere for such ref of that headlight. I have refs, indeed, but not anything like this.
I will post my progress this weekend. Have been quite busy this last couple of week.

Will use your illustration to continue modeling the headlights... thank you!

@P2sta thanks man! Working on the bumps

[OldDog]

You are Welcome mate
But If you think those were awesome take a look at this
Hope you like them

(EDIT: I'll see what i can do :/ )

Btw I think that the Head-Stop-Lights are the most important at a model they give the most realism,
so make them good
Hope to see that updates soon

Cheers !

[Braiz]

Darn it... The links appear to be broken

Do yo think you could upload them again?